Originally Posted by Zas

I made a script for creating .debs because of that "unrecongnized option '--format=gnu'" error. This is what I use:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#create .deb files for packages (fremantle&harmattan)

if [ ! $1 ];then
 echo Create .deb files for fremantle and harmattan devices
 echo Usage: make-deb /path/to/package
 exit 0
fi

#step in package directory
chdir "$1"

#versionnumber and packagename from control file
packagename=`grep "Package: " DEBIAN/control | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
versionnumber=`grep "Version: " DEBIAN/control | cut -d ' ' -f 2`

#remove old md5 and digsig sums
rm -f DEBIAN/md5sums 2>/dev/null
rm -f DEBIAN/digsigsums 2>/dev/null

#list all folders except DEBIAN
find | grep -v "./DEBIAN" > ../md5

#get md5 and digsig sums to DEBIAN/
while read line
do
 if [ -f "$line" ]; then
  #cut "./" from beginning
  line=`echo "$line" | cut -c 3-`

  #get md5
  md5sum "$line" >> DEBIAN/md5sums

  #get sha1 for digital signatures
  echo S 15 com.nokia.maemo H 40 `sha1sum "$line" | cut -c -40` R `expr length "$line"` $line >> DEBIAN/digsigsums
 fi
done < "../md5"

#remove temp file list
rm -f ../md5

#package control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz
tar -cvzf ../control.tar.gz -C DEBIAN/ . >/dev/null
tar -cvzf ../data.tar.gz . --exclude=DEBIAN >/dev/null
echo 2.0>../debian-binary

#step outside package folder
cd ..

#create debian archive "package_version.deb"
ar -rcv $packagename"_"$versionnumber.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz >/dev/null

#remove packaged files
rm -f debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz 2>/dev/null

Save it as "make-deb" and execute "make-deb /home/user/foopackage" to create /home/user/The-Amazing-Foo_0.1.deb

It makes digsigsums and md5sums files needed for aegis and packages all files to package_version.deb, fetching package name and version number from control file.

It requires binutils for ar packaging, and harmattan packages have to be created on harmattan due to ar differencies.